The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-13

! engine, and nave made arrangements WIN
the Button Fire Company to exchange the
one they now have and they TO pay Button
| 81 800.
The office of B. M. Robinson, of Orlando,
| Supervisor of Registration, was the centre
of attraction Saturday, as it was the last
day of registration. Over 325 have regis
tered in that precinct, showing a remarka-
BILE increase in the last ten months.
! Edward Fowler, a native of England,
died at St Augustine very suddenly Friday
evening after a very short illness. The de-
had every hope of a long life before him.
He leaves a young wife NEE Miss Flora
Taylor to whom he was only united a short
year ago
The Florida delegation of the Grand
Army of the Republic will go to st. Louis
TO be in attendance at the annual encamp-
ment, and the members are going in style,
too. They have chartered two Pullman
palace sleeping cars for the trip, and will
leave Jacksonville in them on the Z o'clock
train on the morning Of Sept. %.
One of Anthony's merchants, Lee Nehr,
lost ten dollar bill Thursday. Search was
made and finally Soc reward was offered
for its recovery whereupon it was produced
by a ten-year- old-boy who said he took it
out in a joke. This is material for the
courts, but no prosecution is likely to be
made unless the offense is repeated.
The postmaster of Orlando has asked the
department for authority to remove the Of
flee from the present quarters into one of
the commodious brick blocks in the vicinity,
and another petition has been forwarded
asking that if change is made the office
may be located in a more central portion of
the city, and requesting that an agent be
sent to make the selection.
The South Florida Railroad Company has
engaged 400 square feet in the Piedmont
Exposition, and issued circular to all pro-
ducers TO send in specimens of all kinds of
produce, woods, etc, from along the line of
the road. 1t is expected that fine exhibit
will be the result, if producers will only in
terest themselves to furnish the material as
the railroad company pays for all transpor-
tation.
Gainesville Record: On Thursday the
undersigned received a note at the post office
which read as follows "F g. smith
You are notified to leave this town within
the next twenty-four hours as it is to your
own interest. Respectfully, MUM MUM"
81 would like to see Mr.. Mum Mum make
me leave Gainesville. Come to the front.
Mr.. Mum Mum, and undertake it, and l
will make it interesting for you. F. G..
SMITH"
At Lake City Saturday about 1000 men
and women, white ana colored, assembled
in the court house square with a
brass band, to hear addresses by Maj.
Russell, Rev. GillNee, Rev. Chambers,
Prof Madison Col. Mcleod and Judge
Ives, on local option and against the sa-
looms The indications point to triumph
ant routing of the liquor saloons from the
county today. A large torchlight process
sion was to have been held last night by
all sizes and colors.
c. l.. Bittinger, local editor of the Ocala
Banner, telegraphs to the Jacksonville
Ne,Cs- Herald as follows: Your dispatch
headed An Editor Cowhided' in to-day's
Ne,Cs- Herald is base, malicious, unquali-
fed lie. Capt. Mcconnell is an invalid on
crutches, and the idea of him cowhiding
any body is absurd to those who know his
condition daily. The other portion of the
dispatch is on a par with the first part.
Veereen came into the Banner office like
roaring line, but went out as quiet as suck
ing dove"
A colored man entered the residence of
George Long, at Interlachen, on Thursday
night, and after rifiing the pockets of Will
liam Whalen, he entered the room of Mr..
Long. In his search for valuables he
awakened Mr.. Long, who in his short
clothes gave him hot pursuit, but he es-
capped. He however. was later in the day
captured near Hawthorne, and brought back
near Interlachep. During the night he was
placed under the guard of Loft Allen and
another person. Before morning the
guards fell asleep, and notwithstanding the
negro was chained and locked up he made
his escape, taking the guards revolver.
A terrible murder was committed in Levy
county on Wednesday, Sept. T. The facts,
as far as are known, are TO the effect that
one Jasper Medlin, who lives in the south
eastern part of the county, was in Bronson
Wednesday, Sept. Z, and left for home the
same evening, about eleven miles south of
Bronson. He was met and shot through the
chest His death must have been almost in
Simultaneous. The bullet entered the right
breast at about the nipple, passing through
and out at the left shoulder Evidently a
rifle, or large calibre pistol, was used. A
post mortem examination was made. His
horse was shot in the left hip, and his hat
was also shot through the brim on the left
side, showing that two or more parties did
the killing. The body lay there in the
woods until Friday morning before it was
found. The buzzards had already found the
body; the eyes were torn out by them. The
authorities have the matter in hand and are
working rapidly.
In February of the present year syndicate
was formed at Jack sonville to purchase
large tract of land in the State of Virginia,
which is rcn in gold, iron and timber. the
lands being also valuable for agricultural
purposes. This syndicate consists of the fol-
lowing: President, Hen. j. G. Greeley; Vice
President, R. Mclaughlin General Manager,
Geo. D. Wvckoff Assistant Manager, James
S. Wyckoff; Secretary, W. II. Chambers.
Directors: A. Nj. Ives S. G.. Thompson, s.
J. Bradley, George r. Reynolds, E. w.
Clarke, M. p. Turner, j. Cronin, 4. M.
Rogers. The company is to be known as
the National Mining Company of Virginia
The property purchased by this company
embraces 5000 acres lying in Spottsylvania
county, and ten miles from Fredericksburg.
The Potomac, Fredericksburg and Pied
mont railroad runs six miles through this
property, which embraces in its domain the
following tracts; The furnace on which
shot and she'll was made during the Mexi-
can war, and for the Confederates during
the civil war; also the Wilderness tract, on
which the famous battle of the Wilderness
was fought the Cathanpen and Carpenter
tracts. The capital represented is large,
and the mineral wealth of this mag
nificent estate will at once be brought
to light Furnaces, saw mills and
dwellings will be erected and immigration
induced to occupy their fertile lands. The
iron ores are both the brown and red hema-
tite so valuable in making steel This enter
prise will greatly develop this section of the
country, as we are assured that the wealth,
liberality aud executive ability is so well
known that the greatest satisfaction will re-
Sult in fine inVaStmaut Of their thousands